Asylums

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life

On The Characteristics of Total Institutions 1; The Moral Career of the Mental Patient; The Underlife of a Public Institution 1; The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization 1